Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With spring's arrival he unearthed himself, discovered other cave-dwellers in the frozen land. Fast learning the local lore he quarried himself another home and, besides providing for his own wants, worked up a profitable business on the side. Not a tree grows on those islands; but the summer influx of gold-miners and coal-miners must have wood. Trader Welzl wangled wood from whaling boats, finally imported provisions from Alaska. Soon he was rich enough to buy a $100,000 share in a trading boat. Tales of his adventures in New Siberia and elsewhere, an account...
...International Zeppelin Transport Corp. (backed by National City Co.) will probably go the first of President Litchfield's giant gas bags if built. Using weather reports from ships at sea, Vice President Jerome Clarke Hunsaker has made hundreds of theoretical crossings, has gathered an abundance of lore to swell the experience of previous actual crossings. He estimates that schedules can be maintained 80% of the time, that his company can wax rich on a diversion of but 4% of the present deluxe steamship traffic...
...Silk is so valuable a commodity that insurance rates on it have been high. Famed in rail-road lore used to be the "crack silk" trains running out of Vancouver; every hour saved meant a saving in insurance. Lately because of low silk and low insurance prices, many a bale has made the leisurely Panama passage...
...fill a Chair of Spiritonomy would be a difficult task. But with sufficient inspiration the incumbent might well make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...busy to attend the Round Table, probably far too busy even to read of it, was Mr. Insull. He and the business world realized that just as he made utility history in 1903 and again in 1910, he must now write a tremendous chapter in U. S. utility lore. Not until the final plan of reorganization is approved by each fretful banker and every anxious note-holder will Samuel Insull know whether the chapter will be one of collapse and disruption or succor and survival...